Dedication to the score of Opus clavicembalisticum (p. 3).
“With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.”
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 33 (p. 684)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 317.
Scaffold speech (1683)
Context: The Lord sanctify these my sufferings unto me, and though I fall as a sacrifice unto the — Idols, suffer not idolatry to be established in this land. Bless thy people and save them. Defend thy own cause and those that defend it. Stir up such as are faint. Direct those that are willing. Confirm those that waver. Give wisdom and integrity unto all. Order all things so as they may most redound unto thine own glory. Grant that I may die glorifying thee for all thy mercies and that (as the last) thou hast permitted me to be singled out as witness of thy truth, and even by the confession of my oppressors, for that Old Cause in which I was from my youth engaged and for which thou hast often and wonderfully declared thyself.
“Those who are actuated by the desire of fame and glory are amazingly gratified by approbation and praise, even though it comes from their inferiors.”
Omnes enim, qui gloria famaque ducuntur, mirum in modum assensio et laus a minoribus etiam profecta delectat.
Letter 12, 6.
Letters, Book IV
“Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,
Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!”
The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.
Personal Talk, Stanza 4
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
